WHAT: CIA INFOSESSION
WHEN: Wednesday February 25 at 12pm
WHERE: Engineering V, Room 2101
WHY: The CIA is coming all the way from Washington D.C. to give you jobs!

Dear E-Grads:

Join us for a FREE lunch and learn more about professional opportunities at the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Our guests from Washington DC will host a 45
minute Info-session about a potential career path in the CIA at UCLA
Engineering. So come meet their recruiters, ask questions and learn more about
the CIA. There are a lot of jobs for engineers, come and find out!

Sometimes I forget how many rad How-TosMahalo hosts, but sometimes I’m asked to pull up stats on which ones are generating the most traffic and I’m typically amused at which ones are the hottest. So, in no particular order, here are some of the hottest how-tos at Mahalo right now.

This was originally a message my friend Chris Remo sent to me and some friends, but it's so chock-full of goodness I thought I'd pass it along.

For those who don't know, Microsoft recently
released software called Songsmith that will automatically generate backing
music against a vocal track. You're supposed to sing into it, but some people
just fed existing vocal tracks back into their computer to see what Songsmith
would do.

Here are some of the most amazing and hilarious
ones. The best ones are the ones that actually fit, but in a totally different
way to the original music. There are always some moments that don't sync up
harmonically, but these are relatively solid:

White Wedding:

Eye of the Tiger:

Take On Me: (This one is pretty bad for the first
40 seconds or so, but it turns into one of my favorites)

We Will Rock You: (In addition to being goofy as
shit, I love how the music adds new harmonic context to the chanting
chorus)